HSG Palava!

The nurse said the procedure would take 5 minutes but it took half an hour as the hole in the cervix was so tight they couldnt get anything through!! They were on the verge of giving up after trying 4 different sized catheters. They said if this procedure didn't work then they would call it a day and I would have to go to theatre another day for a laparoscopy and have the tubes checked that way.

The radiographer then came out from a back room and said; "This may be a stupid suggestion but... can we use this?" and held up some tube that was used for other procedures which was tapered so may slide in. I told them that I didnt care if it was a stupid suggestion, they should try it and I had decided to be positive that this would work as I didnt want to go to theatre. I felt myself sound quite bossy but I felt so strongly that this hiccup wasnt going to spoil my grand plan of getting referred quickly and have a successful IUI. "This would work" I kept telling myself.

Thankfully it did but I was getting quite stressed with the whole thing as I had been lying there for 25 minutes, trying not to visualise it having to be abandoned and had cramp in my thighs! To top it off there were two student nurses in the room as well. In the end, the dye went in but because they were improvising with the tube the dye spilled all over me as the tube was so narrow there was too much pressure and it sprayed backwards over me.

Good thing is that the dye went in, though very slowly through the very thin tube, and it was painful on one side where there seemed to be a blockage but this was cleared. So its all good in the end!!

I thought afterwards that I should have taken my phone in with me to get a picture of the last x-ray taken - I wont often get the opportunity to see inside myself. Sadly, I didnt have this forthought but I did pull this one off google which is the closest I could find to how mine looked!!!